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What is Hollywood Residential?

January 8, 2008 |

My latest project is a new comedy on the Starz Network. Hollywood Residential gives you a picture of Hollywood that you will never see on “Entourage.” It’s about a man barely managing to hang onto the fringes of show business.

The man, Tony King, is the host of a low-budget cable show that does home makeovers for celebrities. Tony is a frustrated actor himself. A terrible actor. And only marginally better as a handyman. All he wants is to be an insider. But his celebrity guests treat him like the help. To make matters worse, Tony’s show has recently hired a co-host, a beautiful, charming woman who is instantly more successful than Tony. She’s on her way up. Tony is not.

Part of the fun of Hollywood Residential is that we shot with real celebrities playing themselves. Our eight-episode season includes Paula Abdul, Tom Arnold, Carmen Elektra, Jamie Kennedy, Chris Kattan, Cheryl Hines, John Cho and Beverly D’Angelo. They all had a blast making fun of themselves and Hollywood.

The other part of the fun is that, since we’re on pay-cable, we can have foul language and nudity. And yes, we took advantage of that. I have to say, shooting with naked people turned out to be much less awkward than I expected.

Watch Hollywood Residential on Starz. I’m proud of it.

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Comments

3 Comments so far

  1. Charlie on January 10, 2008 8:50 pm

    Dude,

    You are the funniest guy on the entire Internet.

    I am going to be subscribing to Starz just to watch your show.

    The Old Negro Space Program was awesome. I would love to see that be about 90 minutes longer.

  2. Floyd D. Barber on January 13, 2008 8:52 am

    Is Tony King sort of a haimish repairman?

  3. parker on April 15, 2008 9:22 am

    Ah, yes, truly original. Saw blade in the leg better than a saw blade in the foot. Funny, funny, funny. Must read more of yer blog.

    parker

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